ARRIS VoIP Solutions Help UPC Broadband Reach One Million Telephony Customers Milestone in Europe
April 19 2006 - 2:50PM
PR Newswire (US)
Fast growth driven by expanding VoIP deployment SUWANEE, Ga., April
19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) today announced
that one of its major customers, UPC Broadband, the European
broadband division of Liberty Global, Inc., has reached the
milestone of deploying voice service to over one million telephony
subscribers within its European footprint. UPC's telephony
deployment count has doubled over the last 15 months and has been
driven by the accelerated growth of UPC's VoIP (Voice over IP)
based Digital Telephony service. Over the years, ARRIS has been a
strategic supplier of headend and customer premises cable telephony
solutions to UPC Broadband, from the days of constant bit-rate
voice to their current successful digital voice deployments. The
UPC VoIP service is of the highest quality and is attractively
priced to form a real alternative for consumers to the existing
telephone service of local market telecom incumbents. UPC initially
launched its Digital Telephony service in the Netherlands, Hungary,
France and Switzerland, and, more recently in Austria, Poland and
Romania, expanding its footprint to seven European markets. During
2006, UPC's VoIP telephony service will be offered in the Czech and
Slovak Republics and in Ireland. The networks of UPC Broadband in
Europe currently pass approximately 18 million homes in Europe of
which 9.3 million are ready to receive telephony service. For the
rollout of VoIP services to residential customers, UPC has selected
a number of key vendors as leading technology suppliers including
ARRIS, and is one of the industry's first cable operators to deploy
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) based VoIP services, laying the
foundation for new feature-rich voice and multimedia services -
such as presence, instant messaging, video and mobility - and
taking the first step towards the integration of mobile and fixed
telephony. The deployment of VoIP-based equipment such as
soft-switches, gateways and customer premises equipment (integrated
cable modem and telephony adapters like the ARRIS Touchstone
product line) fit into UPC's strategy to provide enhanced triple
play services to its customers. Going forward, the company also
plans to develop and offer a VoIP/SIP-based converged product
portfolio over a single IP network to both fixed and wireless
networks. UPC plans to introduce integrated fixed-mobile services
in Switzerland and other key markets based on these SIP Softswitch
platforms. "VoIP is a vital part of UPC Broadband's strategy of
providing a completely integrated voice, video and data service
tailored to the needs of our residential and business customers,"
said Gene Musselman, President and Chief Operating Officer for UPC
Broadband. "Vendors like ARRIS have helped us with our packet
network transformation by delivering solutions that support our
next generation SIP-based services." About ARRIS ARRIS provides
broadband local access networks with innovative video, high-speed
data and telephony systems for the delivery of voice, video and
data to the home and business. ARRIS complete solutions enhance the
reliability and value of converged services from the network to the
subscriber. Headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, ARRIS has
design, engineering, distribution, service and sales office
locations throughout the world. Information about ARRIS products
and services can be found at http://www.arrisi.com/. About UPC
Broadband UPC Broadband (UPC) is a leading provider of television,
broadband Internet, and telephone services, active in 13 countries
in Europe and a division of Liberty Global, Inc. UPC Broadband
serves 11 million television customers, 2 million broadband
internet customers and 1 million telephony customers. Liberty
Global, Inc. is the leading international cable operator offering
advanced video, voice, and Internet-access services to connect our
customers to the world entertainment, communications and
information. At December 31, 2005, Liberty Global operated
state-of-the-art broadband communications networks that served
approximately 15 million customers in 19 countries principally
located in Europe, Japan, Chile, and Australia. Liberty Global's
operations also include significant media and programming
businesses such as Jupiter TV in Japan and chellomedia in Europe.
DATASOURCE: ARRIS CONTACT: Alex Swan, Media Relations of ARRIS,
+1-678-473-8327, or ; or Bert Holtkamp, Director Corporate
Communications of Liberty Global Europe BV, +31 (0)20-778-9447, or
Web site: http://www.arrisi.com/ http://www.lgi.com/
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